Remember
to download all the videos you wish to use and always keep
them in the same folder as the PowerPoint file. If you wish to use your
own musicians it is a simple matter to delete our video slides and
insert the words versions using "Insert Slides from file ..." or "Reuse
Slides"

We find that a bible-bop is a great way of moving from the games into
the worship. Children prefer this to singing and this will draw them to
the worship area. We suggest using it again after tea to draw people
back to the worship area.

A prayer
can be found in the main PowerPoint and Notes files. Our aim over the 3
years is to gradually move to more and more interactive prayers to
encourage children to pray themselves - Download

The first
part of the talk covers the part of the story that happens in Nazareth.

Each month we
suggest a couple of crafts. One is a corporate activity to produce
something to put up on the wall or in the church to show that children
are present, active and part of the church. The other is individual for
them to make something and take it home.

This month's corporate activity is to
make a crib scene using peg figures. There are some hints at Pinterest

You could also make a stable from a shoe box and gluing bits of straw
to it. Hopefully it can be displayed in the church somewhere.

For the cooking craft it would be good to make star biscuits. Star
cutters are easily found. If done as the first craft they should be
ready for tea time. Another
option might be to make them ahead of time and allow the children to
decorate them with icing and silver balls etc.

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You
can
buy access to all the resources for the whole of Year A of the
lectionary by clicking on the
PayPal symbol on the right. This costs
just £60.

On
the final confirmation page from PayPal, make sure that you click on
"Return to the IDEAS web site" to get the Username and
Password for this week's material. We will send you the Username and
Password for the whole year by email as soon as we can.